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...Boston and many another U.S. community where ham for Easter is a tradition, it was a hamless Easter. But thousands of German prisoners of war in the Boston area were luckier. The First Service Command served them ham at Easter Sunday supper...
Kansas City, forgetting its resolve to build something more useful than its execrable World War I memorial, had the same idea. A lyrical Rochester, N.Y. art critic compared it to Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper. The less erudite Danville (Va.) Register was reminded of Washington Crossing the Delaware. Newspaper poets wrote earnest, bad verses about it. The New York Sun superimposed The Spirit of '76 in one corner of the shot, got 48,000 requests for copies...
Inside two young Army deserters were eating supper (they had trapped rabbits and had a well-stocked larder of canned goods). Sergeant Harrison arrested the men, marched them away...
...home of the girl's aunt (Spring Byington) there is some touching domestic business (by Miss Byington, Shirley Temple and the accomplished Tom Tully)-memorably a Christmas supper at which everybody sings O Come, All Ye Faithful. There are also moments of franker pain and shock than most films dare to hand an audience without Boris Karloff to reassure them it is all in fun-a scene with a screwily bellicose veteran of World War I (Chill Wills-see cut), a horrible fracas between Zack and a dog, a still grimmer scene in which Zack, alone in his Y.M.C.A...
...posse of Washington landlords offered to accommodate the Senator. (They were probably not aware that his family also owns a saxophone, clarinet, guitar, trombone and piano because they "like to sit around after supper and have a jam session...